"Reflection on Audience Awareness"

1. Linda Flower stresses the importance of audience awareness in composing while Elbow concludes that the question/issue with audience awareness is when. How would you explain the connections between these two points of view?
-Audience awareness is when you are in front of people lets say to give a speech. And everyone is watching you waiting for you to say something but you don't know if they are going to be inviting to what you are going to say or they are going to ignore you. That's why when you are revising your paper you go throw and re-read to see if you understand what you read. The difference of Elbow and Linda Flower is that Elbow gives more a more thoughtful explanation on what audience awareness is. Linda Flower gives a example of forgetting what the people are going to say and keep on reading.

2. In general, what have you learned from Linda Flower’s and Peter Elbow’s article as a writer and as a reader?
- What I learned of Linda Flower is that when I am in front of a audience and I am going to say something to gust forget the people be relaxed and gust say it without thinking to much on what you are going to say. What I learned from Peter Elbow is the effects that audience awareness.

Questions Sep.30

Israel Flores

ENG 1320/1301. 161

Instructor: Trang Phan

Date: 10/7/10

Q1.    You are probably aware of the importance of Rhetorical reading thus far. I would like to know how you would evaluate your use of rhetorical reading strategies and whether you will have any plans to improve your rhetorical skills and what are the plans?
- Yes, I will like to know how to evaluate my rhetorical reading strategies and it will help me even more to know how to improve it. Because I will always want to improve my rhetorical reading strategies, because they are going to help me in an everyday life. So why not already improve it when I have the chance to do it.  

Q2.    You are also expected to have a good understanding about Writer-Based Prose and Reader-Based Prose and the difference between them lies in the use of Rhetorical Strategies. I would like to know how you would differentiate the use of rhetorical strategies in writing (from reading as above) and what will be your plans to improve your rhetorical strategies in writing.

-The way they both differ is because in writing you gust think on haw to attract the reader to you writing and you can go back to it whenever you like to fix it. The way I am going to improve both Writing-Based Prose and Reading-Based Prose is by going to my teacher. And telling her/him how to help me improve them in a faster way.

QUESTIONS

1. What were your concerns about in an SQR? What would you like the group to consider, respond to, or evaluate on an SQR of yours?

Response: I dont have any concerns on doing SQR's. They help me in a way, to get better by getting through the reader. And knowing if I am getting through them. What I want them to evaluate is when they read if they can imagine what am trying to say. If am "Not" getting through, tell me why and how to improve on it. Tell me my spelling mistakes or grammer. so i can now the next time what i have wrong.

2. How did you see/evaluate the comments you made on your peers’ papers? Honestly, do you think they were really helpful? (It’s ok that you can say no. If that’s the case, please state what made you unable to provide specific comments as you wished. It’s important for me to know how carefully you read your peers’ papers and how did you work on commenting your friends’ papers).

Response: I did I am helping them by me revising there paper. The only thing that does take time is when each person form the group needs to read the paper to understand what mistakes the writer has wrong and what he needs to fix. So then we can talk in the group on what to put on the revision papper.

Israel Flores


ENG 1320/1301. 161

Instructor: Trang Phan

Date: 9/4/10


                                                                  Summary

Understanding Composing is an important part in writing, it gives clues for you to reach the readers and catch there attention. Sometimes while writing you may get off track, you might try to go back and fix what you intend to have wrong. That is called backward movement its when writers recheck what they think the people reading will not understand. Some other writers when lost tend to go back to the topic and get back in track. Its like when you lose focus and you wonder off while someone is talking to you. Sometimes writers go back pause and they repeat the key word to were they get a image of the word so they can keep on writing. By you repeating the word you might get a sense on what direction you are going with the words your write. There are others that by repeating the word can get a fresh and new idea that they will never have thought about. There are feeling in your body that help you with writing you gust have to dig deep to find the words. By the time they are done some writers go back to figure out what they have gust wrote down correct. On the rule they have taught them. While it is important sometimes it over shadows the things you have gust wrote. To make it hard for readers to understand what you wrote.



Question#1

The author describes recursiveness as "a forward-moving action that exists by virtue of a backward-moving action. To what do writers move back? What is being repeated? Name some recursive elements.

Response

There are many reasons why writers go back while writing. On some writers it involves rereading little bits of discourse. It varies from writer to writer, some of them go back after witting few sentences but others write for long periods of times after they go back and reread. This happens after "chunks" of information’s as has been written. The second reason why writers go back while writing. Is to look for key words, or even go back an read the topic to get them back on course. That will help them change to suite there way of writing. The third backward movement in writing, one that is not easy to catch while watching someone else. Is one that cannot be seen or even be written in words. The move itself is not on the page nor on the topic but on the feeling of the writer. The move helps them remember experiences that have happened to you. And there helps you get through to the reader. That is called a felt sense some kind of feeling you get in your stomach while writing.